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Should they change the name of the Utah Jazz to just "Deron Williams"

sahlensguy said:
I don't know. The radio feed has a constant remedy of the Jazz's woes of pushing the ball up the court. When an up tempo game isn't initiated you play into the hands of a Portland and the Jazz's O stagnates as players stand around.

That onus is on DWill to get the O running.
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Blaming Williams for last nights loss. Incredible.
 
Sahlensguy, pay no attention to the troll. He'll start thumping his Vinyl Bible if you do. I hear it has four whole chapters. Deep stuff.
 
sahlensguy said:
That onus is on DWill to get the O running.
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-I saw 2 instances in the first half where Deron was pushing the ball but only had 1 player filling the lane with him.
-2 of Deron's 4 3pters in the 1st-half were pull-up 3's in transition.
-In the 1st-half Deron pushed the ball and made a great wrap-around bounce pass to AK underneath the basket who fumbled it out-of-bounds (a TO credited to Deron).

The Jazz love to run at home. A staple of Delta Center/ESA basketball is challenging a long jumpshot and then releasing up-court for a layup. Problem is when you don't have a dominant defensive rebounder (Malone/Boozer) you can't leak out. That happened in the 2nd qtr when CJ challenged a Matthews jumper and leaked out, but Portland was able to corrall the long rebound. Utah's guards have to come back and gang rebound (not that it's working) so we can't get easy baskets off runouts - which usually lead ito big runs and eventual blowouts in SLC.

Also, Jefferson's performance has been far too inconsistent and innacurate (47% FG when every shot is w/in 15-feet of the rim) to be considered "solid." If you want to contribute it to him still learning/adjusting to our offense, fine. But 31 games in you can't say he has played solid basketball.
 
If a player is solid in my book they can play good offense and defense. Whats nice about big al is he does both. I hate when players you can only get excited about there offense. With big al he may score but on d he also blocks shots.
 
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